This Country Partnership Strategy represents the first individual country strategy prepared for Samoa. The World Bank has been scaling up its assistance in the Pacific and is moving from a regional approach to individual country strategies, to better acknowledge country-specific challenges and priorities.
... انظر المزيد + Samoa highlights the particular challenges facing small and remote islands states, with its development trajectory heavily influenced by its economic geography. Strong policy performance since the mid-1990s has supported generally successful efforts to meet most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) while macro-economic stability has enabled relatively strong growth compared to other remote small island economies. Nevertheless, Samoa's small size, limited natural resources, narrowly based economy, and distance to major markets have imposed speed limits to growth when compared to economies of with similar income levels and policy performance that do not face the same constraints. Recent exogenous shocks, including a devastating tsunami in 2009 and global economic volatility, highlighted the continuing vulnerability of even well performing small islands such as Samoa. The overarching theme running through the Government's new Samoa development strategy and the Bank Group program is the importance of building resilience against shocks. Within this World Bank Group engagement with Samoa will focus on supporting Government efforts to: (i) rebuild macro-economic resilience and encouraging inclusive growth; (ii) generate opportunities from global and regional integration; and (iii) strengthen resilience against natural disasters and climate change. This is the first individual Country Partnership Strategy prepared for Samoa. Reflecting rapidly increasing World Bank Group engagement across the Pacific islands, individual country strategies are now being prepared for each client country. Given similar issues facing many of the small Pacific islands, such strategies will be shaped by a common regional approach. Individual strategies will, however, allow a more nuanced discussion of how broader themes in the Bank Group's engagement across the Pacific can be tailored to reflect the different histories and challenges of each country. This strategy has been prepared in close coordination with the Government of Samoa and key development partners. As well as consultations with key bilateral and multilateral partners, the Government of Australia and the Asian Development Bank participated with the Bank Group in joint programming discussions with the Government of Samoa in preparing this strategy.
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